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When Mighty Israelis Will Stop Fighting Unarmed Women and Children to Honor Nazi Atrocities?

When Mighty Israelis Will Stop Fighting Unarmed Women and Children to Honor Nazi Atrocities? http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/03/201032614425654668.html Israeli troops killed in Gaza clash Hamas attributes Friday's clash to rising tensions in occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem [Reuters] Two Israeli soldiers and at least one Palestinian have been killed in a clash east of the Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis. The Israeli military said on Friday that there was an exchange of fire on the border after soldiers challenged Palestinians planting bombs near the separation barrier. The military said an officer and a soldier have been killed and two soldiers were injured. Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said it was responsible for taking on the Israeli patrol. Responding to the latest violence, Israel's defence minister issued a veiled threat to Hamas. "We have been used to seeing breakaway (Palestinian) groups doing the firing, and Hamas trying to calm things down. Possibly it is loosening its grip, for all sorts of reasons," Ehud Barak told Israeli television on Friday. "Should that indeed prove to be the case, then there will also be ramifications for Hamas," he said, but added: "We have no interest in returning the region to what was in the past." Hamas response "An Israeli army force raided 500 metres into Palestinian territory, and was confronted by our gunmen," Abu Obeida, a Hamas spokesman, said. "This was our work, but was carried out for defence." in depth Video: Israel pursues settlement growth Israelis protest settlement freeze Map of East Jerusalem housing plan Focus: Jerusalem's religious heart Settlements strain US-Israel ties Jewish settlements Riz Khan: The Middle East peace process The battle over Israeli settlements Inside Story: US and Israel poles apart Programmes: Israel: Rise of the right Holy Land Grab Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips, reporting from Gaza, said: "The al-Qassam Brigades gave a press conference and said that at 2:30pm local time an Israeli incursion began into Gaza. Israeli soldiers on foot, tanks and helicopters crossed into Gaza and the al-Qassam Brigades responded with sniper fire. "Witnesses in the area are saying that what took place is now over; it is quiet and Israeli tanks have withdrawn. "Palestinian medical sources have told us three injured civilians have been taken to a hospital nearby," he said. Witnesses said Friday's exchange of fire began when an explosion, possibly caused by an anti-armour rocket fired from the nearby Palestinian town of Khan Younis, hit an Israeli army patrol on the central Gazan border. Backed by tanks, the troops fired back at their assailants and entered Gazan territory, the witnesses said. Such pursuits are common practise for the Israelis, who try to maintain a buffer zone within the border fence off-limits to Palestinians. Our correspondent said Hamas officials in Gaza acknowledge the increase in tension that is "in some ways related, of course, to the situation in Jerusalem". "Hamas say that they are at pains overall not to incite the Israeli army at this point in time and that they don't want trouble," he said. The witnesses also said that, during the fighting, Israeli soldiers took away a wounded comrade and helicopters came to the scene, apparently for medical evacuations.

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1. Whatever you may feel two wrongs don't make a right. Just because you disagree with Israeli policy and find Israeli actions abominable - that doesn't mean that Hitler's actions against them were justifiable! You can't claim retrospective justification anyway! The way that you believe and feel is one of the reasons why the world is in such a state - "you hit me, so I'm going to hit you and so on and so on forever......
2. Israeli policies and actions are worse than Hitler. How long Israelis and their supporters will hide behind Hitler's Holocaust?
3. when these unarmed women and children aren't used as cover for islamic terrorists when children are no longer encouraged to be suicide bombers whose loving families are paid when their kids kill israelis as for aljazeera....muslim propaganda channel.....hardly unbiased or honest on this subject
4. Israel's goverment are murderers, they need to get the hell out of Palestine.
5. Al-Jazeera is not a credible source of news about Israel. You have yet to provide references supporting your statement that Israel honors Nazi Atrocities. Although, the Palestinian terrorists might hold it against you that you call them "unarmed women". I'm just saying.
6. i agree with bon and mellow yellow.
7. Bon and MellowYellow are right
8. Holocaust is something the Israelis like to use to point out atrocities against mankind and what have they been doing for decades now? We need to take our blinders off.
9. No! By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt do War
10. Ole Ole AlJazeera is the only media that says and prints credible news on Israel. Try and find news on Israel on the Jewish owned media in the West and what do you find ? Nothing.AlJazeera employes British and American reporters and news readers and does despite what pro Israelis state gives both sides of a story. Some on here may not like what they say but if the truth hurts so be it. Here is todays issue http://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?webSrchInput=aljazeera&searchbutton=Web+Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush_mailc&p=aljazeera